Holiday Hats

This is another Christmas project I've been working on: Hats for the holidays :) I thought I'd start making some scarves and hats and maybe even some fingerless gloves. I figure without the fingers they'd be pretty EZ.

Any other knitters out there? What projects are you working on? Done gloves?

I'm thinking of forming a knitting circle at work - we had one at my old job and we'd get together once a week at lunch to go over projects and really to just stay on task.

MOVIE MONDAY

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE .

It's a cute book about Max and his journey to another place: an island filled with wild animals. On this island everyone joins in the fun: a wild rumpus. Which I pictured as a dance more than anything else. However, in the movie, the wild rumpus was short-lived and the story grew to all sorts of lengths and went to all sorts of ends to say something about family and relationships-some which are dysfunctional.

Somehow the movie was too dark for me. And this coming from a fanpire. I love zombie and vampire movies but then I expect dark. Here I was expecting fun and the film was short on fun-at least for me.

My son loved it. Of course he's 25. And I did agree with him that the characters were absolutely perfect in their graphic creation. They looked just as I would have imagined they would. So that part was perfect. However, I was looking for a wild dance, a journey of fun and exploration. Here, the story seemed more about relationships to me.

Somehow, I think it lost its fun in the translation from the written page to the big screen. But that's just my opinion.

Anyone else see it?

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Yudo - Who..do?

Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat - why don't you put a penny in the old man's hat?

If you haven't got a penny - a half-penny will do

If you haven't got a half-penny God bless you!

You? Who-do? Who-do? Yudo.

So,all of that to say that I'm getting ready for Christmas and starting to make presents.

My son, Luke, has an on-line comic where he always wears the same tee-shirt. It's kind of obnoxious but it's also funny - a lot like Luke.

So we wanted to make a shirt for Luke to match his comic cartoon.

Here it is. And here's the Yudo screenprinting machine we used to make the tee shirts.

EAP - of course that's Edgar Allen Poe

Rapping The Raven: by Edgar Allen Poe - I love it!

Earth-Friendly Friday the 13th - Share the Moments of Your Life

"And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more!"
- from How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess

YIKES - it's Friday the 13th and time to focus on the things that matter the most in life, like the little things. And we could all learn a lesson or two from the jolly "green" guy: the Grinch.

Simplify the holidays (whether it's Christmas or Thanksgiving) and enjoy the time with your family - that's the important thing in life. Here are some tips to help you bring joy to your holidays and get rid of the stressful stuff.

It's not what you give, or what you get. The holidays are about spending time--not money.

Remember: "what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day."

Answer to Thought for Thursday

Answer: Clement Clarke Moore

Read the entire poem here.